Halliburton wins contract on Iraq oil firefighting

A Halliburton Co. (nyse: HAL - news - people) subsidiary Kellogg, Brown & Root (KBR) has won the contract to oversee any firefighting operations at Iraqi oilfields after any U.S.-led invasion, a Defense Department source said on Thursday.

KBR was widely viewed by many in the oilfield services industry as the likely candidate to oversee firefighting in Iraq's oilfields. Halliburton does extensive logistic support work for the U.S. military.

Vice President Dick Cheney served as Halliburton's chief executive officer from 1995 to 2000,

A possible beneficiary of Thursday's deal is oilwell firefighting company Boots & Coots International Well Control Inc., with which Halliburton has had an alliance since 1995.

A Halliburton spokeswoman declined comment and referred all questions to the Defense Department

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[willy_ph]

Hmmm, didn't see that coming, now did we?

[Chuckiechan]

I think we should disqualify ourselves from doing business with anything to do with oil. Let the French and Russians do it. Their motives are more pure.

Who else bid on it?

[swamp-fox]

Who else can do it?? I don't think there are too many people who know how to fight oilwell fires. If I remembeer correctly everyone calls on the US companies to put out these fires. Kinda like saying "we need to put a man on the moon" who's done it before and who do we call?

swamp

http://www.techimo.com/forum/tid5578...pn1/index.html

[Chuckiechan]

It could be that Halliburton is acting as the General Contractor, and subbing out the independants. In the last go around, some groups were assigned fires that were beyond their abilities. Much has been learned since then.

The general contractor can then evaluate the scope of work in a "fire by fire" contract and ask for a bid. Saves money and time and prevents arguments later.

I don't know this for a fact, it's just likely to be done this way. I don't think Halliburton is really a fire fighting entity.

PS, they can still sub down to the unsucessful bidders portions of the job.

Yeah, Right.